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Tiie Acorn PUBLISHED MONTHLY BYTHE STU DENTS OF BETH EL ACADEMY,ST. PAU L,M INN. VOL. IX MAY 1917 No. 8 merar .... (Ulnae atI 917 § mtg Agneta M. Sundfelt I Classmates join with loyal hearts, Hail our Alma Mater true. Laud her virtue, which imparts Loyalty, with praises clue; — Classmates, we of seventeen, Swell the tune with hearts serene. Chorus; — Bethel, Bethel, ever—clear,— With your virtues true, Fill our hearts with mem'ries new, Sweeter year by year— Bethel is the worthy name We will e’er proclaim; Hail with zest, the ever-blest. Bethel e’er the same. II. In your halls, so well renowned, And the class rooms, cherished well. Wisdom thru them all resound. There our thots would ever dwell; There where learning is aflame From the lamp whose oil is fame. Chorus: — III. May our banner ever sway Gently on thru coming time; With our motto in array: “Deeds not words;” the most sublime. Scarlet blending with the black. Ne’er can Bethel spirit lack. Chorus: — Music by S. T. Arlander.
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0 THE ACORN {Jrastbrut Ijagainmt'fi Auniumary Henry Wmgblade Emerson has aptly said that great institutions are the shadows of great men. it may well be added that the man himself is always bigger than the work of his hand; that the man himself is always more stable and more deeply rooted than the shadow which his personality casts. But the finished product or institution does not always express or even suggest to those who rest under its canopies or drink from its fountains, what its evolv-ment on the part of the great author heart has cost. The careless laughter of jovial children, as they wander through the corridors of the fragrant rose garden, betrays innocent ignorance concerning its history; they little dream that in the metamorphosis from desert to garden, every rose has been planted in pain and watered with tears. It is only the veteran gardener, as he stands with bared and bowed head, that can see in the dewdrops on every flower the transfigured tears ot the years; that can truly appreciate the varied shades of color and the mystic meanings of perfume. There are said to be three ways of acquiring greatness; being born great, achieving greatness and having greatness thrust upon- one. Pres. G. A. Hag-strom was born great in that his parents were of sterling Swedish stock who believed in work and in prayer. He has achieved greatness in that from the time his eyes became fixed on the great Christian ideal, he has wrought with matchless industry the work of his hand. And he has had greatness thrust upon him in that high and heavy honors, have from time to time been placed upo nliis shoulders, almost without his consultation and certainly without his seeking. When Mahomet at a dinner of his intimate friends outlined to them his great world task, he could not refrain from bursting into tears. When John Knox at a meeting of staunch Presbyterians was unanimously voted the torch bearer of Scotland's reformation, he burst into tears. When the General Conference in Duluth by a standing vote put the burdens of our school system upon Dr. Hagstrom he, too, burst into tears. But lie did not swerve or shrink. Three important events in a minister’s life are,—his graduation from the seminary, his ordination and his marriage. Dr. Hagstrom ecelebrates this year the twenty-fifth anniversary of all three of these events. That he made no mistake in entering the seminary and that the council made no mistake in ordaining him, a splendid record of twenty-five years convincingly demonstrates. That he made no mistake in marrying—and in marrying the modest girl from Scandia—his own repeated testimony in public and in private— clearly attests. Furthermore, he celebrates this year the fifieth anniversary of his birth; he has attained unto manhood’s prime vigor. To such a life such anniversaries are indeed happy. Bet us extend to him our heartiest felicitations! The first time we were privileged to see Dr. Hagstrom was when he was presiding officer at the Kansas City General Conference. With boyish eyes wc admired the metropolitan cut of his coat and the quiet dignity of his bearing. We enjoyed the firmness of his “clean cut” rulings as well as the warmth of his genial smile. The next time we saw him was at the General Conference in Chicago. At that meeting he was elected Financial Secretary of our denomination. Some of those who voted against him on the first ballot, explained that it would be of no use to elect him, as he could not and would not leave the First Church of Chicago, where he was so much loved and where he was doing such telling work. But when the
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